Why is geology important?

Broadly speaking there's three main areas of geology which are important to people: natural resources, natural hazards and engineering. Natural Resources includes minerals, ground water, fossil fuels, but also the materials we use in construction like gravel, aggregates and stone. read more

Applied geology is the application of the science study of the earth. While the importance of geology is to study the earth, its history, composition, whatever happens to it and the solutions to whatever happened to the earth. read more

The study of geology is important for three main reasons: it reveals the deep history of the Earth, informs other sciences, and it is useful for economic purposes. Before geology was a science, the age and development of the Earth were mysterious, and prospecting for minerals was a hit-and-miss business. read more

Geology is important in determining building placement, discovery of resources such as gravel, stone, oil, coal, water, and mineral deposits, knowledge of rock and mineral properties, landslide avoidance, erosion control, determining planetary histories, and earthquake and volcano eruption prediction. read more